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Left to right. First row.

1. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell.

In a joyous and perverse intermingling of fable, myth, heterotopian vision, and pocket wisdom, The Faggots & Their Friends tell us stories of the 70s gay countercultures and offer us strategies and wisdom for our own time living Between Revolutions. These pages sketch a different shape to time and offer instructions for living within it. This story, like our own, plays out in liminal time. Not the time of revolution, and not after-the-revolution, the story occurs between revolutions. Being between revolutions: being enmeshed in slow entropy, in abandoned spaces, in lives forged without recourse to “winning” or “after.” The faggots feel this disintegration, and live best when empires are falling.

2. Be Gay, Do Crime by The Mary Nardini Gang.

Among the discordant chorus of anons who penned the defining texts of the queer anarchist network Bash Back!, none was more fervent in its glorification of criminal desire, decadent hedonism, and social undoing than the Milwaulkee-based Mary Nardini Gang. Their fiery “Towards the Queerest Insurrection” still circulates as an integral manifesto of riotous queerness, while the “Criminal Intimacy” and “Whore Theory” have made their more subterranean way into innumerable conversations and correspondences.

Ten years later, the secretive group supplements these collected writings with a subtle retrospective. Carefully unlocking the hidden layers of their theses on insurrection, they face up to what they got wrong, concede that the world ended somewhere between the Greek insurrection of 2008 and now, and insist upon the vital task of ushering new worlds into being as we live amid the decomposition and cataclysmic death throes of the old one. To their theses on insurrection, they prepend a new arcana tooled for opening onto the queerest of outsides.

Dedicated to their friends among the dead, this pocket edition is a necromantic mirror, an encrypted message to old loves, and an invitation to those finding these words for the first time.

3. The Criminal Child by Jean Genet.

“As for me, I have chosen: I will be on the side of crime. And I will help the children, not to win back access to your houses, your factories, your schools, your laws, and sacraments, but to destroy them.”

So reads this new clandestine translation of a previously censored and unavailable text by Jean Genet. “The Criminal Child” is a critical engagement with the French youth prisons, a reflection on Genet’s formative years within them, a document of hostility towards society and its benevolent reformers, and – as argued by the anonymous afterword – an initiatory magical system.

5. Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture by Arthur Evans.

This radical faerie classic, first published in 1978 by Fag Rag Press, uncovers the hidden mythic link between homosexuality and paganism in an elegy for the world of sex and magic vanquished by Christian civilization. From Joan of Arc to the Cathars and the underground worshippers of Diana, the author shows how every upwelling of gender transgression and sexual freedom was targeted by the authorities for total and often violent repression or appropriation. The concluding manifesto calls for pagan reconnection with the living world, the creation of armed anarchist cells, and the destruction of industrial civilization.

Left to right. Row 2.

1. What is Gender Nihilism? A Reader.

A collection gathering readings for discussions on an end to gender: not the proliferation or liberation of gender, but its catastrophic cancellation. The reader brings together writings as old as 1883 and as recent as 2015, juxtaposing nihilist, radical feminist, queer, trans, anticolonial, communizing and insurrectionary approaches with other unclassifiable textual/existential disruptions. Many of the readings are out of print or have only appeared online or in zine form, and include: Adrienne Rich, Monique Wittig, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, A.R. Stone, Paul B. Preciado, the entities known as Radicalesbians, Gender Mutiny, Baedan, Ehn Nothing, Laboria Cuboniks and, as always, Anonymous. Also includes “My Preferred Gender Pronoun is Negation,” “Gender Nihilism” by Aidan Rowe, and the gender nihilism anti-manifesto that inspired the collection.

2. Baedan 1 – journal of queer nihilism.

3. Baedan 2 – a queer journal of heresy.

If the first issue of Baedan was a knife thrust wildly in the dark, the second is an effort to examine our enemies in a new light; enemies who bear scars yet endure. In a sense, this issue follows through our initial attack and pushes beyond our own horrors at the consequences of words. We write at a time when everything which seemed slightly possible two years ago has borne its rotten fruit; when queer recuperation has become more powerful and accepted than ever, while the fetish for technology has reached an unprecedented frenzy; when so many efforts at subversion languish under the tyranny of cybernetic identity and aesthetics (even our own etymologies have become identities!); when friends turn away out of fear of the unknown, turn toward all the comforts and certainties of the past (identity politics, traditionalism, religious morality, activism, et al). The old enemies rear their heads and the terrain is as bleak as ever. And yet we take seriously that adage: “There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.”

4. Baedan 3 – journal of queer time travel.

Bædan: journal of queer time travel marks a further attempt to pose and to flesh out a queer critique of civilization. Queer not only in the sense of coming from those outside and disruptive of the Family, but also in the sense of a critique weirder than its more orthodox cousins. We imagine the Bædan project as an effort to pose the critique of civilization otherwise, to begin from another place. In this issue (and beyond…) we have conjured a strange bestiary of thinking, trying to unearth and trace the tradition of anti-civilization thought in the literature of queerness and in queerness as immanent critique.

*I couldn't find this one online*

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"do you think that's really what matters to voters?"

two weeks later . . .

cnn talking heads: trump is going to destroy our democracy and normalize xenophobia!!!!

shark tank guy: what exactly was democratic about the DNC kneecapping bernie in 2016 and handpicking kamala with no primary process in 2024

cnn talking heads: nothing the DNC does has to be democratic you neanderthal canadian immigrant

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a bi coworker was recently talking about his ex and about how awful their marriage was because when they watched movies or read books she’d talk about how sexy the characters were and how this was really hurtful to him and then turned to me expecting me to agree and I was at a loss for how to respond. sir in my culture if your wife says she thinks legolas is super sexy then it is customary to commission her an erotic digital painting of legolas with his dick out. I have no advice for you.

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my family fucked up my life by using spoonerisms interchangeably with their true phrase counterparts since before i was born and now i can’t escape from instinctively saying shit like “im gonna shake a tower”

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I'll also say, after spending about a decade using MS Office for work and LibreOffice for everything else, I honestly think that LibreOffice has become the overall better software suite, highly recommend.

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Hey, don’t cry. Free online database of Japanese folk lore

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huge carrot recall affecting canada and the united states, including puerto rico, due to shiga toxin-producing e. coli

november 16, 2024

this recall may expand. see below for details.

Grimmway Farms has issued a recall of select organic whole carrots and organic baby carrots that should no longer be in grocery stores but may be in consumers' refrigerators or freezers. These products may have been contaminated with Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (E. coli) O121:H19. E. coli O121:H19 is a bacterium that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, elderly people, and those with a weakened immune system. Some infections can cause severe bloody diarrhea conditions, such as a hemolytic uremic syndrome, or the development of high blood pressure, chronic kidney disease, and neurologic problems. Symptoms include severe stomach cramps, diarrhea, fever, nausea, and/or vomiting. The incubation period for E. coli O121:H19 in humans can range from 24 hours to as much as ten days. The average incubation period is 3 to 4 days.

The following recalled products were shipped directly to retail distribution centers nationwide in the United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada: - Organic whole carrots, which do not have a best-if-used-by date printed on the bag, but were available for purchase at retail stores from August 14 through October 23, 2024, - Organic baby carrots with best-if-used-by-dates ranging from September 11 through November 12, 2024. The recalled carrots should not be available for purchase in stores but may be in consumers' refrigerators or freezers.

(emphasis mine)

affected whole carrot brands and their bag sizes:

365 1Ib, 2lb, 5lb

Bunny Luv 1lb, 2lb, 5lb, 10lb, 25lb

Cal-Organic 1Ib, 2lb, 51b, 6lb, 10lb, 25lb

Compliments 2lb

Full Circle 1lb, 2lb, 5lb

Good & Gather 2lb

GreenWise 1Ib, 25lbs

Marketside 2lb

Nature's Promise 1Ib, 5lb

O-Organics 1lb, 2Ib, 5lb, 10lb

President's Choice 2lb

Simple Truth 1lb, 2lb, 5lb

Trader Joe's 1lb

Wegmans 1lb, 2lb, 5lb

Wholesome Pantry 1lb, 2lb, 5lb

affected baby (cut and peeled) carrot brands and their bag sizes:

365 12oz, 1lb, 2lb

Bunny Luv 1lb, 2lb, 3lb, 5lb

Cal-Organic 12oz, 1lb, 2lb, 2pk/2lbs

Compliments 1lb

Full Circle 1 lb

Good & Gather 12oz, 1lb

GreenWise 1lb

Grimmway Farms 25 lb bag

Kroger 2lb

LIDL 1lb

Marketside 12oz, 1lb, 2lb

Nature's Promise 1lb

O-Organics 12oz, 1lb, 2lb

President's Choice 1Ib, 2lb

Raley's 1lb

Simple Truth 1 Ib, 2lb

Sprouts 1 Ib, 2lb

Trader Joe's 1lb

Wegmans 12oz, 1lb, 2lb

Wholesome Pantry 1lb, 2lb

formatting on tumblr is difficult, please see the FDA outbreak investigation page for the affected ranges of best-by dates for baby carrots, and pictures of the affected carrots.

as of time of posting, the main FDA recall page and the CDC investigation page have an error and do not list Kroger or LIDL baby carrots, while the FDA outbreak investigation page does. I am assuming that this means they are part of the recall and that this error will probably be fixed soon.

the recalled carrots are thought to be associated with an E. coli O121:H19 outbreak. 39 illnesses, 15 hospitalizations, and one death have been linked to this outbreak so far.

as always, these numbers are expected to be lower than the true number of illnesses and deaths, and will likely rise. not everyone seeks medical attention, and even when all testing and reporting procedures go as smoothly as possible, it can take weeks to officially link an illness to an outbreak.

noteworthy from the FDA investigation page:

FDA is working with the firm to determine the source of contamination and whether additional products are affected. This advisory will be updated as information becomes available.

in short, there is a possibility this contamination may affect more than just the recalled carrots. keep up to date with these pages to stay on top of this outbreak.

the recalled carrots are no longer on shelves. but if they are in your fridge or freezer, destroy or discard them and clean anything they may have touched.

do NOT eat these carrots! this strain of e. coli is dangerous and at least one person has died.

if you think you got sick in relation to this outbreak, please seek medical attention, even if just to get your illness officially associated with this outbreak.

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if you're going to tag any and all tes-related posts #morrowind #oblivion #skyrim regardless of which game you're talking about, the least you could do is throw #arena and #daggerfall in there, those old bitches need love too :'(

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Once again, transphobes target a family-friendly drag show for violence, people in the community come out to defend it, and who gets charged by the cops? That's right, the people from the community, defending the drag show! Once again, The International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund has stepped in to help with legal costs for the arrestee. Full story above. If you want to make sure people arrested for protecting their communities from these bigots have proper legal defense, you should make a contribution to the Defence Fund today!

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Vetted by 90s-ghost here; the Tumblr account is different, but the post links to the same GoFundMe.

More than 200,000 people are trapped in the northern Gaza Strip and are facing a real famine and mass extermination. Also, more than a million and a half people are facing the same famine in the southern Gaza Strip.Speak up for them, your voice can make a difference in this unjust world.

Also save my families within these families

Save my families who are suffering from famine here 👈👈

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Oh art programs are shit on Linux because when gimp was about to hit parity with photoshop adobe took them to court and managed to trademark "having a good ui". Thought you'd enjoy that knowledge

Do you have any sources on this? Not trying to, like, call you out, I just couldn't find anything relevant searching variations on "adobe gimp court case" on DDG and Google.

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ENGLISH BELOW

Pegida heeft een demonstratie getiteld ‘Islam is geen haar beter dan nazisme’ aangemeld voor zondag 17 november om 16.00 op Amsterdam CS om moslimhaat te spuwen. ⚠️ Dit is nooit acceptabel en Pegida moet overal en altijd worden geweerd. Maar zeker na de golf van haat die vorige week onze stad overspoelde, afkomstig van genocide-plegers verkleed als hooligans, het stadsbestuur, de politie, de media, politiek Den Haag en anderen, is het extra belangrijk dat we ons keihard uitspreken. 🔻 Wij, de mensen, niet het stadsbestuur of de politie, zijn Amsterdam en wij staan met alle Amsterdammers die te maken krijgen met haat, demonisering en terreur. Laten we aankomende zondag met veel lawaai duidelijk maken dat de straten van ons zijn en dat moslimhaat van Pegida of wie dan ook hier absoluut NIET WELKOM is! 💌 We verzamelen zondag om 15.45 voor de hoofdingang van Amsterdam CS. Neem lawaai-materiaal, spandoeken en borden mee

Mokum Tegen Fascisme

--------------- ‼️ Pegida has registered a demonstration entitled ‘Islam is no better than Nazism’ for Sunday 17 November at 16:00 at Amsterdam CS to spew hatred towards Muslims. ⚠️ This is never acceptable and Pegida must be banned everywhere and at all times. But especially after the wave of hatred that flooded our city last week, coming from genocide perpetrators dressed as hooligans, the city council, the police, the media, politicians in The Hague and others, it is extra important that we speak out loudly. 🔻 We, the people, not the city council or the police, are Amsterdam and we stand with all Amsterdammers who are confronted with hatred, demonisation and terror. Let us make it clear with a lot of noise this coming Sunday that the streets are ours and that hatred towards Muslims from Pegida or anyone else is absolutely NOT WELCOME here! 💌 We will gather on Sunday at 15:45 in front of the main entrance of Amsterdam CS. Bring noise-making materials, banners and signs!

Mokum Against Fascism

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Tfem stereotypes are NOT TRUE. Not all tfems are puppy girls.

For example im a catgirl

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Got an obnoxious anon about this post that I deleted (because it was obnoxious), but I kind of wish I hadn't, because the person who sent it was exactly the kind of person I'm talking about here :/ and my whole point was to be kinder to those people.

In case that person comes back (or anyone who feels similarly scrolls past this), I'm gonna try to address the stuff they said as best as I can remember:

"liberals are freaking out because they are being realistic about how bad things are, Trump is going to put trans people in camps!!"

Although homeless and otherwise poor trans people are already being put in camps via the street-to-prison pipeline (including under Dem governments, no less), mass internment of the broader U.S. trans population is unlikely, at least in the near future. If you're concerned about this happening, get involved defending your homeless neighbors right now, to develop the connections and skills to resist trans internment if that future ever comes.

"'we are all we need <3' mutual aid isn't enough, all you have for people is the leftist version of 'live laugh love'"

I know that "we are all we need" stuff is usually a mutual aid slogan, but if you actually read what I wrote, you'll see that I'm mostly talking about resistance and community defense there.

And I think a lot of people don't fully understand why "do mutual aid" is such common advice for how to get involved. It's not just about the aid itself (although that's obviously worth doing), it's also about the connections you make by doing the aid. Mutual aid is a really good entry point into radical political networks, and a fantastic way to build affinity with people who are likely down for way more than handing out soup.

Anyway, my pinned post is a list of links with info for how to get going with street-level political action, including but not limited to mutual aid. If you're feeling doomer, check it out.

seeing the level of despair people are reacting to the u.s. election results with, i think "vote for us or there's no other hope than misery and death in trump's 1,000 years of darkness" may have been socially irresponsible campaign messaging

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Fsssss…. People are calling me a pedophile for saying I met my partner of 8 years when I was 18 and he was 16… I mean we were both in high school, is it really that odd?

It’s a little upsetting tbh

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possible future where the u.s. requires legal id verification on all social media and i retreat to using nothing but lainchan and anarcho-punk.net

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ENGLISH BELOW

Pegida heeft een demonstratie getiteld ‘Islam is geen haar beter dan nazisme’ aangemeld voor zondag 17 november om 16.00 op Amsterdam CS om moslimhaat te spuwen. ⚠️ Dit is nooit acceptabel en Pegida moet overal en altijd worden geweerd. Maar zeker na de golf van haat die vorige week onze stad overspoelde, afkomstig van genocide-plegers verkleed als hooligans, het stadsbestuur, de politie, de media, politiek Den Haag en anderen, is het extra belangrijk dat we ons keihard uitspreken. 🔻 Wij, de mensen, niet het stadsbestuur of de politie, zijn Amsterdam en wij staan met alle Amsterdammers die te maken krijgen met haat, demonisering en terreur. Laten we aankomende zondag met veel lawaai duidelijk maken dat de straten van ons zijn en dat moslimhaat van Pegida of wie dan ook hier absoluut NIET WELKOM is! 💌 We verzamelen zondag om 15.45 voor de hoofdingang van Amsterdam CS. Neem lawaai-materiaal, spandoeken en borden mee

Mokum Tegen Fascisme

--------------- ‼️ Pegida has registered a demonstration entitled ‘Islam is no better than Nazism’ for Sunday 17 November at 16:00 at Amsterdam CS to spew hatred towards Muslims. ⚠️ This is never acceptable and Pegida must be banned everywhere and at all times. But especially after the wave of hatred that flooded our city last week, coming from genocide perpetrators dressed as hooligans, the city council, the police, the media, politicians in The Hague and others, it is extra important that we speak out loudly. 🔻 We, the people, not the city council or the police, are Amsterdam and we stand with all Amsterdammers who are confronted with hatred, demonisation and terror. Let us make it clear with a lot of noise this coming Sunday that the streets are ours and that hatred towards Muslims from Pegida or anyone else is absolutely NOT WELCOME here! 💌 We will gather on Sunday at 15:45 in front of the main entrance of Amsterdam CS. Bring noise-making materials, banners and signs!

Mokum Against Fascism